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Letter "P" » Poets
«To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet»
Author: Eugene Delacroix | About: Poets
«The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.»
«We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.»
«Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast»
«Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.»
«To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.»
Author: Richard Wilbur | About: Poets
«The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | About: Poets | Keywords: fixing, produces
«The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them»
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal»

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